City attorney sues website owner
On a website set up for women to talk about the men who wronged them – Don’t Date Him Girl – a city attorney from Pittsburgh was dissed by two women and several anonymous posters. Doing what attorneys are prone to do, he sued the owner of the website for defamation. In addition, Todd J. Hollis contends that the site has no safeguards to ensure what is posted is true.
Um – it’s called the internet, Todd. Most of what you read here has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Pomegrante juice may slow cancer
In this case, it is prostate cancer. I surely wish they’d do these studies on women sometimes. I have this killer recipe for Pomegrante martinis and I’d love to use the excuse the it might slow cervical cancer 😉
NASA Mars plane close to flight
NASA Langley is pretty close to having a fold-up plane ready to fly over Mars. The plane, named Ares, will be considered for the next Mars Scout competition, which opens August 1.
The basic goals of ARES remain the same as then – to measure gases in the atmosphere and magnetism below ground, and to examine geologic features older than anything on Earth – with a notable addition. ARES would seek to verify reports of methane on Mars.
Three Scout finalists will be chosen in December and the winner will be named in early 2008. Launch will be in 2011.
Kinda cool to have this kind of research going on right in our backyards 😉
Jeb Bush used nonprofit to pay pollster, campaign chief
Florida governor Jeb Bush has revived his nonprofit foundation, Foundation for Florida’s Future, and used it to pay campaign staff:
…recent disclosures on the foundation’s Web site show that it paid:• Nearly $99,000 to Ann Herberger, Bush’s campaign finance director during two campaign and a longtime political fund-raiser for his family.
• Nearly $70,000 to Neil Newhouse of Washington-based GOP Public Opinion Strategies group for polling last October.
• $48,000 for “management services” to a lobbying and public-affairs firm whose staff includes Mandy Clark and Mandy Fletcher. Both worked on Bush’s reelection campaign and on his brother’s presidential reelection campaign.
• $23,500 for “legal services” from the Washington law and lobbying firm Patton Boggs.
• $20,000 in February to GOP political strategist Adam Goodman’s The Victory Group Inc.
I thought he was going to leave the governor’s mansion and become NFL commissioner?
Kerry running again
Seems that John Kerry is making no bones about the fact that he wants to run again. Conventional wisdom pretty much rules that out. Adlai Stevenson did get the opportunity to run again against Eisenhower in 1956 but that was just because he was willing to be cannon fodder against a popular president. With no incumbent in 2008, Kerry has been adding to the $15 million that he had left over from his 2004 campaign fund.
If he somehow manages to win the nomination again, expect this site to become active.
George Bush turning 60
This year, the first of the baby boom generation turns 60 and President George Bush will join them on Thursday. A number of others who will be celebrating the same birthday this year include Cher, Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, Donald Trump, Sylvester Stallone, Diane Keaton, Suzanne Somers, Reggie Jackson and Jimmy Buffet.
Those close to him say Bush is entirely comfortable with the milestone, in part because of the discipline that allowed him to turn 20 years ago from a life of excessive partying and career meandering and never look back.
Only 20 years ago? By the look of those pics, seems he hasn’t stopped.
Happy birthday, Mr. President.
Good to know: Cheney’s pacemaker is working
Vice President Dick Cheney had his annual physical today and his hi-tech pacemaker hasn’t been activated by an irregular heatbeats.
I guess that means it’s working, but if it hasn’t been activated, how can you be sure?
Glad to live in Virginia
The drama of the Republican candidates running in a primary in NY makes the Webb/Miller primary look tame:
Accusations of bigamy and child abuse, illegitimate children and a tabloid description of one candidate curled in the fetal position after downing half a pint of ice cream sound like top-rated, daytime fiction.
KT McFarland and John Spencer are locked in a battle for the right to run against Hillary Clinton. Clinton has stayed out of the fray:
“My job is not to be a political commentator,” she said.
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One interesting note on KT McFarland. Chris Matthews’ “Hardball” reported in March (and it’s still on the New York State Democratic Committee website that McFarland was registered to vote at two addresses simultaneously — her apartment in Manhattan and her summer home in the Hamptons — and that she switched her voting back and forth from one election to the next. She was apparently embarrassed into cancelling her Suffolk County registration, but you have to wonder just how the state could not catch this up front.
She obviously subscribed to the idea of voting early and often! I wonder what they would have done had they discoursed that she had actually voted twice?